Podcasts about Akamatsu

Solénoïde (21.10.2024) - Dans cette 53e Grande Boucle, préparez-vous à un tour de France musical aussi audacieux qu'éclectique, à la découverte de six projets artistiques singuliers ! De Pau à Nantes en passant par Marseille et Paris, cette escapade sonore explore des univers où l'expérimentation est reine. Hélène Vogelsinger sculpte des ambiances mystiques à partir de lieux abandonnés, tandis que le trio Laurent Pernice, Barbéri Jacques et Dominique Beven fusionne des rythmes industriels et des sonorités tribales. Akamatsu nous fait voyager avec des compositions hybrides, entre jazz et électronique, alors que Laurent Saïet et Stephane Domotic nous plongent dans des atmosphères introspectives et poétiques. Le trio Dream Baby clôt cette aventure sensorielle avec une immersion chamanique portée par la voix envoûtante de Beatrice Temple. Un parcours musical hors des sentiers battus, où chaque étape est une invitation à l'évasion sonore.

A fresh balance patch for Reboot, 2013 Worlds, and the Corp side of the second Data Pack in the Spin Cycle.

Fluent Fiction - Japanese: The Unforgettable Spring: A Search for Friendship and a Lost Dog Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.org/the-unforgettable-spring-a-search-for-friendship-and-a-lost-dog Story Transcript:Ja: 日が昇り始めた空に、桜の花びらが舞い踊り、春樹とさくらが眠っている町は、見事にピンク色に染まっていた。 これが彼らが決して忘れられない春の一日の始まりである。En: As the sun began to rise, cherry blossom petals danced in the sky, and the town where Haruki and Sakura were sleeping was beautifully dyed pink. This marked the beginning of a spring day they would never forget.Ja: 春樹とさくらは、沸き立つような冒険心と共に、度々足を運んでいた桜祭りに参加した。その祭りの舞台は、彼らの共通の友人であるヒロシの故郷へと向かっていたのだ。 ヒロシは絶えず2人に故郷の美しさと、祭りの楽しさを語ってくれるが、実際に目の当たりにする前は、その全貌を想像することすらできなかった。En: With an overflowing sense of adventure, Haruki and Sakura frequently visited the cherry blossom festival. The stage of this festival was Hiroshi's hometown, which they both had in common. Hiroshi always talked about the beauty of his hometown and the fun of the festival, but before actually witnessing it, they couldn't even imagine the full extent of it.Ja: 町は、典型的な日本の田舎風景で、小川が静かに流れ、地元の人々が心を込めて育てた華やかな桜の木が道々に並んでいた。 これらの全てが、春樹とさくらを受け入れ、身も心も安らぐ空間へと誘ってくれる。En: The town had a typical Japanese countryside scenery, with a quiet stream and beautifully cultivated cherry blossom trees lined along the streets. All of these welcomed Haruki and Sakura and invited them into a peaceful space, both physically and mentally.Ja: しかしながら彼らが町に着いたとき、現れたのは奇妙な風景だった。通常なら賑やかであるはずの町は、いつもの様子とは全く違って、静まり返っていた。 独特の騒音や、子どもたちの笑い声、楽しい雰囲気が全くない。En: However, when they arrived in the town, they were greeted by a strange sight. The town, which should normally be lively, was completely different from its usual self and unusually quiet. There was no unique noise, children's laughter, or joyful atmosphere.Ja: 慌てて釈然としない顔を見せながら、二人はヒロシの家に向かった。彼の家に到着すると、ヒロシは彼らを真剣な顔で迎え、町の現状について説明した。En: Feeling confused and concerned, the two hurriedly headed towards Hiroshi's house. When they arrived, Hiroshi greeted them with a serious expression and explained the current situation of the town.Ja: どうやら、町の老人である赤松さんの愛犬「ポチ」が行方不明になってしまったらしい。 町の人々は老人に深い敬意を抱いており、その悲しみは町全体に広がっていた。En: It seemed that Mr. Akamatsu's beloved dog, "Pochi," had gone missing. The townspeople held great respect for the elderly man, and his sorrow had spread throughout the town.Ja: 春樹とさくらはその話を聞き、友人の困った状況に自分たちが何かできることがないか考えた。En: Upon hearing this story, Haruki and Sakura thought about what they could do to help their friend in distress.Ja: 『じゃあ、僕たちがポチを探すよ。』春樹が即座に提案した。さくらも彼の意志に賛同し、二人ともポチを見つけるという新たな冒険に取り組むことを決めた。En: "Well then, let's search for Pochi," Haruki promptly suggested. Sakura also agreed with his proposal, and the two decided to embark on a new adventure to find Pochi.Ja: 彼らが山や森、町の家々を探索した結果、ポチを見つけることができたのは3日後のことだった。赤松さんは喜びの涙を流し、町の人々もまた祭りを再開することができ、賑やかさが戻った。En: It took them three days of exploring mountains, forests, and the houses of the town before they were able to find Pochi. Mr. Akamatsu shed tears of joy, and the town was able to resume the festival, bringing back its liveliness.Ja: 祭りは最高潮に達し、春樹、さくら、そしてヒロシは友情の絆を誓いあった。それぞれの心の中で、これからの春祭りはただの楽しいイベントだけでなく、彼らの団結と成功を祝うためのものにのみ留まりなくなったと感じていた。En: The festival reached its climax, and Haruki, Sakura, and Hiroshi pledged their bonds of friendship. In each of their hearts, the upcoming spring festivals no longer remained mere enjoyable events but became a celebration of their unity and success.Ja: それ以降、春樹とさくらはヒロシの故郷に足跡を刻む度に、人々の笑顔、お祭りの楽しさ、そして彼らの友情の価値を思い出していた。そして何よりも、あの春の一日を思い出す。En: Since then, whenever Haruki and Sakura left their footprints in Hiroshi's hometown, they remembered the smiles of the people, the fun of the festival, and the value of their friendship. Above all else, they remembered that one spring day. Vocabulary Words:As: したくthe: そのsun: 太陽began: 始まったto: にrise: 昇るcherry blossom: 桜の花びらpetals: 花びらdanced: 舞い踊りin the: でsky: 空and: そしてtown: 町where: どこでHaruki: 春樹Sakura: さくらwere: いたsleeping: 眠っていたbeautifully: 美しくdyed: 染められたpink: ピンク色This: これがmarked: 意味するthe: そのbeginning: 始まりof: のa: 一つのspring: 春day: 日they: 彼らは

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.04.26.538303v1?rss=1 Authors: Quintanilla, M. A., Patel, H., Wu, H., Sochacki, K. A., Akamatsu, M., Rotty, J. D., Korobova, F., Bear, J. E., Taraska, J. W., Oakes, P. W., Beach, J. R. Abstract: The ability to dynamically assemble contractile networks is required throughout cell physiology, yet the biophysical mechanisms regulating non-muscle myosin 2 filament assembly in living cells are lacking. Here we use a suite of dynamic, quantitative imaging approaches to identify deterministic factors that drive myosin filament appearance and amplification. We find that actin dynamics regulate myosin assembly, but that the actin architecture plays a minimal direct role. Instead, remodeling of actin networks modulates the local myosin monomer levels and facilitates assembly through myosin:myosin driven interactions. Using optogenetically controlled myosin, we demonstrate that locally concentrating myosin is sufficient to both form filaments and jump-start filament amplification and partitioning. By counting myosin monomers within filaments, we demonstrate a myosin-facilitated assembly process that establishes sub-resolution filament stacks prior to partitioning into clusters that feed higher-order networks. Together these findings establish the biophysical mechanisms regulating the assembly of non-muscle contractile structures that are ubiquitous throughout cell biology. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Episode 394: This week we visit another show from the 2000s to 2009 decade and watch one of the OG harem anime: Love Hina. This anime adaptation of Akamatsu's manga was a slow build up romance, with budding friends, perverts, and terrible knack for repeating the same tropes every episode. There is a such thing as dated anime and this is one of them. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anime-summit/message

Signal readout for Transition-Edge Sensor X-ray imaging spectrometers by H. Akamatsu et al. on Tuesday 13 September Arrays of low-temperature microcalorimeters provide a promising technology for X-ray astrophysics: the imaging spectrometer. A camera with at least several thousand pixels, each of which has an energy-resolving power ($E/Delta Eurss{FWHM}$) of a few thousand across a broad energy range (200~eV to 10~keV or higher), would be a revolutionary instrument for the study of energetic astrophysical objects and phenomena. Signal readout is a critical enabling technology. Multiplexed readout, in which signals from multiple pixels are combined into a single amplifier channel, allows a kilo pixel-scale microcalorimeter array to meet the stringent requirements for power consumption, mass, volume, and cooling capacity in orbit. This chapter describes three different multiplexed-readout technologies for transition-edge-sensor microcalorimeters: time-division multiplexing, frequency-domain multiplexing, and microwave-SQUID multiplexing. For each multiplexing technique, we present the basic method, discuss some design considerations and parameters, and show the state of the art. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of future prospects. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05621v1

Rhetta Akamatsu's latest book, Haunted Marietta, about her hometown of Marietta, GA, was released by History Press in September and spent a number of weeks on Amazon's Hot New Releases in Georgia History. In addition, Rhetta has two other books about the paranormal, Ghost to Coast and Ghost to Coast Tours and Haunted Places. In March of 2009, Rhetta joined Jari Mikkola of The Netherlands to create a new electronic journal, The Journal of Anomalous Sciences, which has developed an impressive roster of advisors and contributors and a following in both Europe and the United States. Rhetta also owns and maintains several websites, including The Paranormal Directory at Boomja.com, Ghost to Coast.us, and RhettaAkamatsu.com. She is a Certified Paranormal Investigator and a member of Ghost Hounds. Paranormal Investigative Team*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

High Fat Diet Completely Suppressed by Acidic Activated Charcoal Acidic activated charcoal improved HFD-induced obesity and insulin resistance without any serious adverse effects. These beneficial effects were likely due to modulating lipid absorption and altered FA/BA metabolism. Zhang X, Diao P, Yokoyama H, Inoue Y, Tanabe K, Wang X, Hayashi C, Yokoyama T, Zhang Z, Hu X, Nakajima T, Kimura T, Nakayama J, Nakamuta M, Tanaka N. Acidic Activated Charcoal Prevents Obesity and Insulin Resistance in High-Fat Diet-Fed Mice. Front Nutr. 2022 May 12;9:852767. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.852767. PMID: 35634388; PMCID: PMC9134190. #charcoal #diet #metabolism Acidic activated charcoal, red pine, High fat diet, Ultra processed foods, adipose microinflammation, lipid absorption, Akamatsu tree, bile acids, insulin resistance, metabolism, body weight --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ralph-turchiano/support

Acidic activated charcoal improved HFD-induced obesity and insulin resistance without any serious adverse effects. These beneficial effects were likely due to modulating lipid absorption and altered FA/BA metabolism. Zhang X, Diao P, Yokoyama H, Inoue Y, Tanabe K, Wang X, Hayashi C, Yokoyama T, Zhang Z, Hu X, Nakajima T, Kimura T, Nakayama J, Nakamuta M, Tanaka N. Acidic Activated Charcoal Prevents Obesity and Insulin Resistance in High-Fat Diet-Fed Mice. Front Nutr. 2022 May 12;9:852767. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.852767. PMID: 35634388; PMCID: PMC9134190. #charcoal #diet #metabolism Acidic activated charcoal, red pine, High fat diet, Ultra processed foods, adipose microinflammation, lipid absorption, Akamatsu tree, bile acids, insulin resistance, metabolism, body weight --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ralph-turchiano/support

Rhetta Akamatsu's latest book, Haunted Marietta, about her hometown of Marietta, GA, was released by History Press in September and spent a number of weeks on Amazon's Hot New Releases in Georgia History. In addition, Rhetta has two other books about the paranormal, Ghost to Coast and Ghost to Coast Tours and Haunted Places. In March of 2009, Rhetta joined Jari Mikkola of The Netherlands to create a new electronic journal, The Journal of Anomalous Sciences, which has developed an impressive roster of advisors and contributors and a following in both Europe and the United States. Rhetta also owns and maintains several websites, including The Paranormal Directory at Boomja.com, Ghost to Coast.us, and RhettaAkamatsu.com. She is a Certified Paranormal Investigator and a member of Ghost Hounds. Paranormal Investigative Team*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

Link to article: https://bit.ly/3q4zYijWebsites that post manga comics without artists' authorization remain rampant in Japan, posing a serious issue for cartoonists, particularly fledgling ones.Manga sales in the country are estimated to have hit a record high of ¥612.6 billion in 2020 thanks to such blockbuster works as “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.”The stellar result was apparently due in part to brisk demand from people staying at home amid the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, however, damage from piracy websites also increased.ABJ, an organization established mainly by publishers including Shueisha Inc. to tackle the issue of manga piracy, has compiled a list of some 400 piracy sites. The combined monthly number of accesses to the top three such sites reached 326 million in October 2021, skyrocketing from 12.5 million in January 2020, according to the group.The estimated amount of damage calculated on the basis of the number of accesses to the top 10 piracy websites exceeded ¥780 billion between January and October 2021, far more than some ¥210 billion for the whole of 2020.Damage from Manga Bank, one of the major pirate sites, alone is believed to have totaled over ¥200 billion. The cumulative number of accesses to the site, which was set up in December 2019, amounted to nearly 1 billion.Shueisha and three other publishers started talks on combating the site immediately after its launch.They filed a petition with a U.S. court seeking an order for the disclosure of information about the site's operator.In November, the court ordered entities including Google to disclose such information. Although Manga Bank was shut down suddenly in the same month, the four companies remain determined to identify its operator and pursue its legal responsibility.“The picture quality of pirated versions seen recently is very high and almost on par with that of e-books, and unauthorized works of some manga comics are found on the internet on the very dates when their official versions go on sale,” manga artist Ken Akamatsu, known for such hit works as “Love Hina” and “Negima! Magister Negi Magi,” said angrily.Noting that damage is particularly great for new and unknown cartoonists who are active only online with their works still not published in magazines, Akamatsu said: “If such artists lose motivation, very entertaining manga works that would have appeared in the future could end up not being read. Keeping away from pirated works will lead to protecting talented artists, so I want people to enjoy manga in their official versions.”Support the show (https://bit.ly/2XdAlJC)

Rhetta Akamatsu's latest book, Haunted Marietta, about her hometown of Marietta, GA, was released by History Press in September and spent a number of weeks on Amazon's Hot New Releases in Georgia History. In addition, Rhetta has two other books about the paranormal, Ghost to Coast and Ghost to Coast Tours and Haunted Places. In March of 2009, Rhetta joined Jari Mikkola of The Netherlands to create a new electronic journal, The Journal of Anomalous Sciences, which has developed an impressive roster of advisors and contributors and a following in both Europe and the United States. Rhetta also owns and maintains several websites, including The Paranormal Directory at Boomja.com, Ghost to Coast.us, and RhettaAkamatsu.com. She is a Certified Paranormal Investigator and a member of Ghost Hounds. Paranormal Investigative Team*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

Rhetta Akamatsu's latest book, Haunted Marietta, about her hometown of Marietta, GA, was released by History Press in September and spent a number of weeks on Amazon's Hot New Releases in Georgia History. In addition, Rhetta has two other books about the paranormal, Ghost to Coast and Ghost to Coast Tours and Haunted Places. In March of 2009, Rhetta joined Jari Mikkola of The Netherlands to create a new electronic journal, The Journal of Anomalous Sciences, which has developed an impressive roster of advisors and contributors and a following in both Europe and the United States. Rhetta also owns and maintains several websites, including The Paranormal Directory at Boomja.com, Ghost to Coast.us, and RhettaAkamatsu.com. She is a Certified Paranormal Investigator and a member of Ghost Hounds. Paranormal Investigative Team*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

Rhetta Akamatsu's latest book, Haunted Marietta, about her hometown of Marietta, GA, was released by History Press in September and spent a number of weeks on Amazon's Hot New Releases in Georgia History. In addition, Rhetta has two other books about the paranormal, Ghost to Coast and Ghost to Coast Tours and Haunted Places. In March of 2009, Rhetta joined Jari Mikkola of The Netherlands to create a new electronic journal, The Journal of Anomalous Sciences, which has developed an impressive roster of advisors and contributors and a following in both Europe and the United States. Rhetta also owns and maintains several websites, including The Paranormal Directory at Boomja.com, Ghost to Coast.us, and RhettaAkamatsu.com. She is a Certified Paranormal Investigator and a member of Ghost Hounds. Paranormal Investigative Team *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free) To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

Rhetta Akamatsu's latest book, Haunted Marietta, about her hometown of Marietta, GA, was released by History Press in September and spent a number of weeks on Amazon's Hot New Releases in Georgia History. In addition, Rhetta has two other books about the paranormal, Ghost to Coast and Ghost to Coast Tours and Haunted Places. In March of 2009, Rhetta joined Jari Mikkola of The Netherlands to create a new electronic journal, The Journal of Anomalous Sciences, which has developed an impressive roster of advisors and contributors and a following in both Europe and the United States. Rhetta also owns and maintains several websites, including The Paranormal Directory at Boomja.com, Ghost to Coast.us, and RhettaAkamatsu.com. She is a Certified Paranormal Investigator and a member of Ghost Hounds. Paranormal Investigative Team *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free) To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

Rhetta Akamatsu's latest book, Haunted Marietta, about her hometown of Marietta, GA, was released by History Press in September and spent a number of weeks on Amazon's Hot New Releases in Georgia History. In addition, Rhetta has two other books about the paranormal, Ghost to Coast and Ghost to Coast Tours and Haunted Places. In March of 2009, Rhetta joined Jari Mikkola of The Netherlands to create a new electronic journal, The Journal of Anomalous Sciences, which has developed an impressive roster of advisors and contributors and a following in both Europe and the United States. Rhetta also owns and maintains several websites, including The Paranormal Directory at Boomja.com, Ghost to Coast.us, and RhettaAkamatsu.com. She is a Certified Paranormal Investigator and a member of Ghost Hounds. Paranormal Investigative Team. - www.ghosttocoast.us ****************************************************************** To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

Rhetta Akamatsu's latest book, Haunted Marietta, about her hometown of Marietta, GA, was released by History Press in September and spent a number of weeks on Amazon's Hot New Releases in Georgia History. In addition, Rhetta has two other books about the paranormal, Ghost to Coast and Ghost to Coast Tours and Haunted Places. In March of 2009, Rhetta joined Jari Mikkola of The Netherlands to create a new electronic journal, The Journal of Anomalous Sciences, which has developed an impressive roster of advisors and contributors and a following in both Europe and the United States. Rhetta also owns and maintains several websites, including The Paranormal Directory at Boomja.com, Ghost to Coast.us, and RhettaAkamatsu.com. She is a Certified Paranormal Investigator and a member of Ghost Hounds. Paranormal Investigative Team. - www.ghosttocoast.us ****************************************************************** To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

Rhetta Akamatsu's latest book, Haunted Marietta, about her hometown of Marietta, GA, was released by History Press in September and spent a number of weeks on Amazon's Hot New Releases in Georgia History. In addition, Rhetta has two other books about the paranormal, Ghost to Coast and Ghost to Coast Tours and Haunted Places. In March of 2009, Rhetta joined Jari Mikkola of The Netherlands to create a new electronic journal, The Journal of Anomalous Sciences, which has developed an impressive roster of advisors and contributors and a following in both Europe and the United States. Rhetta also owns and maintains several websites, including The Paranormal Directory at Boomja.com, Ghost to Coast.us, and RhettaAkamatsu.com. She is a Certified Paranormal Investigator and a member of Ghost Hounds. Paranormal Investigative Team. - www.ghosttocoast.us******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

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This week's manga log: "Love Hina," written and illustrated by Akamatsu, Ken. Description (courtesy of MangaDex):   Keitaro has had great difficulty getting into the university of his choice and no luck in meeting women. In a desperate effort to go into seclusion and study for his entrance exams, he volunteers to take over running his grandmother's hotel. His plans are ruined when he discovers that the "hotel" is actually an all-girls dormitory... and some serious distractions ensue. Feel free to send your thoughts and questions via the Anchor app, the podcast e-mail: mangalogpod@gmail.com, or the podcast Twitter @mangalogpod.          Next series: "Tsuredure Children," written and illustrated by Wakabayashi, Toshiya. Music: "Eternal Youth" by RUDE. Please support him! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXHaVENo6E) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mangalog/message

This week's manga log: "The Drops of God," written by Kibayashi, Shin, and illustrated by Okimoto, Shuu.  Description (courtesy of MangaDex):  The main character of the manga, a young man called Shizuku Kanzaki, discovers the beauty of wine after his father, a famous wine critic, dies and leaves an unusual will: a description of 12 wines he considers to be the best in the world, comparing them to Jesus Christ’s disciples. The first person to find these “disciples” will inherit the father’s wine collection, a contest that pits Shizuku against his adoptive brother, Issey Tomine, who works as a wine critic. Feel free to send your thoughts and questions via the Anchor app, the podcast e-mail: mangalogpod@gmail.com, or the podcast Twitter @mangalogpod.         Next series: "Love Hina," written and illustrated by Akamatsu, Ken. Music: "Eternal Youth" by RUDE. Please support him! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXHaVENo6E) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mangalog/message

The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2019) examines the relations between art and politics in transwar Japan, exploring these via a microhistory of the artist, memoirist, and activist Akamatsu Toshiko (also known as Maruki Toshi, 1912–2000). Scaling up from the details of Akamatsu’s lived experience, the book addresses major events in modern Japanese history, including colonization and empire, war, the nuclear bombings, and the transwar proletarian movement. More broadly, it outlines an ethical position known as persistence, which occupies the grey area between complicity and resistance: Like resilience, persistence signals a commitment to not disappearing—a fierce act of taking up space but often from a position of privilege, among the classes and people in power. Akamatsu grew up in a settler-colonial family in rural Hokkaido before attending arts college in Tokyo and becoming one of the first women to receive formal training as an oil painter in Japan. She later worked as a governess in the home of a Moscow diplomat and traveled to the Japanese Mandate in Micronesia before returning home to write and illustrate children’s books set in the Pacific. She married the surrealist poet and painter Maruki Iri (1901–1995), and together in 1948—and in defiance of Occupation censorship—they began creating and exhibiting the Nuclear Series, some of the most influential and powerful artwork depicting the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. For the next forty or more years, the couple toured the world to protest war and nuclear proliferation and were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995. With abundant excerpts and drawings from Akamatsu’s journals and sketchbooks, The Art of Persistence offers a bridge between scholarship on imperial Japan and postwar memory cultures, arguing for the importance of each individual’s historical agency. While uncovering the longue durée of Japan’s visual cultures of war, it charts the development of the national(ist) “literature for little citizens” movement and Japan’s postwar reorientation toward global multiculturalism. Finally, the work proposes ways to enlist artwork generally, and the museum specifically, as a site of ethical engagement. Charlotte Eubanks is associate professor of comparative literature, Japanese and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She studies the material culture of books and word/image relations, with a focus on Japanese literature from the medieval period to the present. Her articles have appeared in Ars Orientalis, Book History, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, PMLA, Symposium, Word &Image, and a range of other venues. She is associate editor at the journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2019) examines the relations between art and politics in transwar Japan, exploring these via a microhistory of the artist, memoirist, and activist Akamatsu Toshiko (also known as Maruki Toshi, 1912–2000). Scaling up from the details of Akamatsu’s lived experience, the book addresses major events in modern Japanese history, including colonization and empire, war, the nuclear bombings, and the transwar proletarian movement. More broadly, it outlines an ethical position known as persistence, which occupies the grey area between complicity and resistance: Like resilience, persistence signals a commitment to not disappearing—a fierce act of taking up space but often from a position of privilege, among the classes and people in power. Akamatsu grew up in a settler-colonial family in rural Hokkaido before attending arts college in Tokyo and becoming one of the first women to receive formal training as an oil painter in Japan. She later worked as a governess in the home of a Moscow diplomat and traveled to the Japanese Mandate in Micronesia before returning home to write and illustrate children’s books set in the Pacific. She married the surrealist poet and painter Maruki Iri (1901–1995), and together in 1948—and in defiance of Occupation censorship—they began creating and exhibiting the Nuclear Series, some of the most influential and powerful artwork depicting the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. For the next forty or more years, the couple toured the world to protest war and nuclear proliferation and were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995. With abundant excerpts and drawings from Akamatsu’s journals and sketchbooks, The Art of Persistence offers a bridge between scholarship on imperial Japan and postwar memory cultures, arguing for the importance of each individual’s historical agency. While uncovering the longue durée of Japan’s visual cultures of war, it charts the development of the national(ist) “literature for little citizens” movement and Japan’s postwar reorientation toward global multiculturalism. Finally, the work proposes ways to enlist artwork generally, and the museum specifically, as a site of ethical engagement. Charlotte Eubanks is associate professor of comparative literature, Japanese and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She studies the material culture of books and word/image relations, with a focus on Japanese literature from the medieval period to the present. Her articles have appeared in Ars Orientalis, Book History, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, PMLA, Symposium, Word &Image, and a range of other venues. She is associate editor at the journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/japanese-studies

The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2019) examines the relations between art and politics in transwar Japan, exploring these via a microhistory of the artist, memoirist, and activist Akamatsu Toshiko (also known as Maruki Toshi, 1912–2000). Scaling up from the details of Akamatsu’s lived experience, the book addresses major events in modern Japanese history, including colonization and empire, war, the nuclear bombings, and the transwar proletarian movement. More broadly, it outlines an ethical position known as persistence, which occupies the grey area between complicity and resistance: Like resilience, persistence signals a commitment to not disappearing—a fierce act of taking up space but often from a position of privilege, among the classes and people in power. Akamatsu grew up in a settler-colonial family in rural Hokkaido before attending arts college in Tokyo and becoming one of the first women to receive formal training as an oil painter in Japan. She later worked as a governess in the home of a Moscow diplomat and traveled to the Japanese Mandate in Micronesia before returning home to write and illustrate children’s books set in the Pacific. She married the surrealist poet and painter Maruki Iri (1901–1995), and together in 1948—and in defiance of Occupation censorship—they began creating and exhibiting the Nuclear Series, some of the most influential and powerful artwork depicting the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. For the next forty or more years, the couple toured the world to protest war and nuclear proliferation and were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995. With abundant excerpts and drawings from Akamatsu’s journals and sketchbooks, The Art of Persistence offers a bridge between scholarship on imperial Japan and postwar memory cultures, arguing for the importance of each individual’s historical agency. While uncovering the longue durée of Japan’s visual cultures of war, it charts the development of the national(ist) “literature for little citizens” movement and Japan’s postwar reorientation toward global multiculturalism. Finally, the work proposes ways to enlist artwork generally, and the museum specifically, as a site of ethical engagement. Charlotte Eubanks is associate professor of comparative literature, Japanese and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She studies the material culture of books and word/image relations, with a focus on Japanese literature from the medieval period to the present. Her articles have appeared in Ars Orientalis, Book History, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, PMLA, Symposium, Word &Image, and a range of other venues. She is associate editor at the journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2019) examines the relations between art and politics in transwar Japan, exploring these via a microhistory of the artist, memoirist, and activist Akamatsu Toshiko (also known as Maruki Toshi, 1912–2000). Scaling up from the details of Akamatsu’s lived experience, the book addresses major events in modern Japanese history, including colonization and empire, war, the nuclear bombings, and the transwar proletarian movement. More broadly, it outlines an ethical position known as persistence, which occupies the grey area between complicity and resistance: Like resilience, persistence signals a commitment to not disappearing—a fierce act of taking up space but often from a position of privilege, among the classes and people in power. Akamatsu grew up in a settler-colonial family in rural Hokkaido before attending arts college in Tokyo and becoming one of the first women to receive formal training as an oil painter in Japan. She later worked as a governess in the home of a Moscow diplomat and traveled to the Japanese Mandate in Micronesia before returning home to write and illustrate children’s books set in the Pacific. She married the surrealist poet and painter Maruki Iri (1901–1995), and together in 1948—and in defiance of Occupation censorship—they began creating and exhibiting the Nuclear Series, some of the most influential and powerful artwork depicting the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. For the next forty or more years, the couple toured the world to protest war and nuclear proliferation and were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995. With abundant excerpts and drawings from Akamatsu’s journals and sketchbooks, The Art of Persistence offers a bridge between scholarship on imperial Japan and postwar memory cultures, arguing for the importance of each individual’s historical agency. While uncovering the longue durée of Japan’s visual cultures of war, it charts the development of the national(ist) “literature for little citizens” movement and Japan’s postwar reorientation toward global multiculturalism. Finally, the work proposes ways to enlist artwork generally, and the museum specifically, as a site of ethical engagement. Charlotte Eubanks is associate professor of comparative literature, Japanese and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She studies the material culture of books and word/image relations, with a focus on Japanese literature from the medieval period to the present. Her articles have appeared in Ars Orientalis, Book History, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, PMLA, Symposium, Word &Image, and a range of other venues. She is associate editor at the journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2019) examines the relations between art and politics in transwar Japan, exploring these via a microhistory of the artist, memoirist, and activist Akamatsu Toshiko (also known as Maruki Toshi, 1912–2000). Scaling up from the details of Akamatsu’s lived experience, the book addresses major events in modern Japanese history, including colonization and empire, war, the nuclear bombings, and the transwar proletarian movement. More broadly, it outlines an ethical position known as persistence, which occupies the grey area between complicity and resistance: Like resilience, persistence signals a commitment to not disappearing—a fierce act of taking up space but often from a position of privilege, among the classes and people in power. Akamatsu grew up in a settler-colonial family in rural Hokkaido before attending arts college in Tokyo and becoming one of the first women to receive formal training as an oil painter in Japan. She later worked as a governess in the home of a Moscow diplomat and traveled to the Japanese Mandate in Micronesia before returning home to write and illustrate children’s books set in the Pacific. She married the surrealist poet and painter Maruki Iri (1901–1995), and together in 1948—and in defiance of Occupation censorship—they began creating and exhibiting the Nuclear Series, some of the most influential and powerful artwork depicting the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. For the next forty or more years, the couple toured the world to protest war and nuclear proliferation and were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995. With abundant excerpts and drawings from Akamatsu’s journals and sketchbooks, The Art of Persistence offers a bridge between scholarship on imperial Japan and postwar memory cultures, arguing for the importance of each individual’s historical agency. While uncovering the longue durée of Japan’s visual cultures of war, it charts the development of the national(ist) “literature for little citizens” movement and Japan’s postwar reorientation toward global multiculturalism. Finally, the work proposes ways to enlist artwork generally, and the museum specifically, as a site of ethical engagement. Charlotte Eubanks is associate professor of comparative literature, Japanese and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She studies the material culture of books and word/image relations, with a focus on Japanese literature from the medieval period to the present. Her articles have appeared in Ars Orientalis, Book History, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, PMLA, Symposium, Word &Image, and a range of other venues. She is associate editor at the journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2019) examines the relations between art and politics in transwar Japan, exploring these via a microhistory of the artist, memoirist, and activist Akamatsu Toshiko (also known as Maruki Toshi, 1912–2000). Scaling up from the details of Akamatsu’s lived experience, the book addresses major events in modern Japanese history, including colonization and empire, war, the nuclear bombings, and the transwar proletarian movement. More broadly, it outlines an ethical position known as persistence, which occupies the grey area between complicity and resistance: Like resilience, persistence signals a commitment to not disappearing—a fierce act of taking up space but often from a position of privilege, among the classes and people in power. Akamatsu grew up in a settler-colonial family in rural Hokkaido before attending arts college in Tokyo and becoming one of the first women to receive formal training as an oil painter in Japan. She later worked as a governess in the home of a Moscow diplomat and traveled to the Japanese Mandate in Micronesia before returning home to write and illustrate children’s books set in the Pacific. She married the surrealist poet and painter Maruki Iri (1901–1995), and together in 1948—and in defiance of Occupation censorship—they began creating and exhibiting the Nuclear Series, some of the most influential and powerful artwork depicting the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. For the next forty or more years, the couple toured the world to protest war and nuclear proliferation and were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995. With abundant excerpts and drawings from Akamatsu’s journals and sketchbooks, The Art of Persistence offers a bridge between scholarship on imperial Japan and postwar memory cultures, arguing for the importance of each individual’s historical agency. While uncovering the longue durée of Japan’s visual cultures of war, it charts the development of the national(ist) “literature for little citizens” movement and Japan’s postwar reorientation toward global multiculturalism. Finally, the work proposes ways to enlist artwork generally, and the museum specifically, as a site of ethical engagement. Charlotte Eubanks is associate professor of comparative literature, Japanese and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She studies the material culture of books and word/image relations, with a focus on Japanese literature from the medieval period to the present. Her articles have appeared in Ars Orientalis, Book History, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, PMLA, Symposium, Word &Image, and a range of other venues. She is associate editor at the journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.04.27.053470v1?rss=1 Authors: Barbuti, P. A., Antony, P., Novak, G., Larsen, S. B., Berenguer-Escuder, C., Santos, B. F., Massart, F., Grossmann, D., Shiga, T., Ishikawa, K.-i., Akamatsu, W., Finkbeiner, S., Hattori, N., Krueger, R. Abstract: Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by the loss of A9 midbrain dopaminergic neurons and the accumulation of alpha-synuclein aggregates in remaining neurons. Many studies of the molecular and cellular basis of neurodegeneration in PD have made use of iPSC-derived neurons from patients with familial PD mutations. However, approximately half of the cells in the brain are glia, and their role facilitating neurodegeneration is unclear. We developed a novel serum-free protocol to generate midbrain astrocytes from patient-derived iPSCs harbouring the pathogenic p.A30P, p.A53T mutations in SNCA, as well as duplication and triplication of the SNCA locus. In our cellular model, aggregates of alpha-synuclein occurred only within the GFAP+ astrocytes carrying the pathogenic SNCA mutations. Assessment of spontaneous cytosolic calcium (Ca2+) release using Fluo4 revealed that SNCA mutant astrocytes released excess Ca2+ compared to controls. Unbiased evaluation of 3D mitochondrial morphometric parameters showed that these SNCA mutant astrocytes had increased mitochondrial fragmentation and decreased mitochondrial connectivity compared to controls, and reduced mitochondrial bioenergetic function. This comprehensive assessment of different pathogenic SNCA mutations derived from PD patients using the same cellular model enabled assessment of the mutation effect, showing that p.A53T and triplication astrocytes were the most severely affected. Together, our results indicate that astrocytes harbouring the familial PD mutations in SNCA are dysfunctional, suggesting a contributory role for dysfunctional astrocytes in the disease mechanism and pathogenesis of PD. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

In this episode of boobs blood and badasses we focus on the lore of the series and cover our favorite enemies throughout the various games!Released on Sept 26 1986 Published by Konami - Lead Producer Koji Igarashi Directed by Hitoshi Akamastu You play as Simon Belmont armed with a magical whip, enter Castlevania and defeat Count Dracula. One of Konami’s most critically acclaimed series and best selling of all time, eventually spawning not only a vast series of games, but comics, tv series, spin offs, reboots and spiritual successors. Akamatsu was heavily influenced by the Universal Picture films Hammer Horror films. He aimed to create a game run which players felt like they were in a classic horror movie. Later being referred to as “a Japanese transposition of the Hammer Horror films I grew up with and loved.”Find out more at https://boobs-blood-badasses.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Solénoïde (14.01.2019) - Traversez en diagonal le panorama musical hexagonal ! Comme à son habitude, cette thématique tente de mettre en évidence le bouillonnement créatif de la scène musicale française ainsi que l’imaginaire débridée de ses protagonistes.

It’s a Very Akamatsu Christmas as Third Seat by the Window and Warui Deshou join forces to take on two Ken Akamatsu “beloved” Christmas “classics,” as well as play a few party games. This episode has quite a fraught history. We all made a first pass at it in Christmas 2017, but stuff came up … Continue reading A Very Akamatsu Christmas – Holiday Special w/ Third Seat By The Window → --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/waruideshou/message

It’s a Very Akamatsu Christmas as Third Seat by the Window and Warui Deshou join forces to take on two Ken Akamatsu “beloved” Christmas “classics,” as well as play a few party games. Download (right click, save link as) |Time: 2:56:41 | Third Seat on iTunes | Warui Deshou on iTunes DaLadybugProductions Correspondence DaLadybugProductions’ Website |… Read

It’s a Very Akamatsu Christmas as Third Seat by the Window and Warui Deshou join forces to take on two Ken Akamatsu “beloved” Christmas “classics,” as well as play a few party games. Download (right click, save link as) |Time: 2:56:41 | Third Seat on iTunes | Warui Deshou on iTunes DaLadybugProductions Correspondence DaLadybugProductions’ Website |… Read

Chapitre #06 Love HinaLe podcast manga par @Tomiiks ( https://twitter.com/tomiiks ) et @Praska ( https://twitter.com/praska )Auteur: Ken AkamatsuEdité chez Pika EditionDate de sortie (France ) : 01 Octobre 2014

The Hinoki Respecters have Logged In. Betterman episodes 15 and 16 are kind of a dark time folks. At least there's a respite to be found in Miyako, amino acids, and animes MUCH WORSE than this one to put things into perspective. The Media Maidenz follow Miyako's plain language explanation of much of the series' events thus far, muse on how to get Neil Degrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins to watch and comment on Betterman, adore Yannagi and Kaede's happy cohabitating relationship, and worship the ground Miyako walks on and her every pronounciation of difficult words (explained plainly). Akamatsu is there for like, two scenes. Sakura's life continues to be upsetting, and Lamia saves us from Keita and Hinoki's date with some real Chuuni shit. (PLEASE) Send us questions! Rate us on iTunes! Support OUR transmedia empire! Email us at transmediacrity@gmail.com! Check out our TUMBLR and TWITTER. SUPPORT US ON PATREON! Or donate directly to Madiha for hosting costs. Check out our YOUTUBE CHANNEL. Subscribe, and like our videos! You can find us at:  Madiha: Twitter, Tumblr, The Solstice War.Esther: Twitter, Tumblr.

Meditação é chave para superar crises no relacionamento, por Ceci Akamatsu by Portal Personare

Neste áudio, a terapeuta energética, Ceci Akamatsu, compara sua vida amorosa com sua saúde. Por meio desta metáfora simples, a especialista explica como identificar se vale a pena continuar investindo em uma relação e ensina exercícios para você se fortalecer internamente, independente de qual seja a sua decisão.

Quais os reais motivos da traição? Por Ceci Akamatsu by Portal Personare

Meditação para trabalhar a energia do perdão, por Ceci Akamatsu by Portal Personare

Meditação guiada com a terapeuta energética Ceci Akamatsu para limpeza energética, ajudando você a se fortalecer e criar sua própria realidade.

A partir de agora, o engarrafamento para chegar em casa pode ser mais bem aproveitado. Basta dar play nesta Meditação e acompanhar a terapeuta energética Ceci Akamatsu. Você pode entrar em estado meditativo enquanto dirige. Os benefícios podem ser sentidos quase imediatamente. Que tal experimentar?

Meditação para eliminar cansaço, mente acelerada, desânimo e estresse, comuns depois de um dia de trabalho. Para fazer dentro do transporte público ou no banco carona. Basta colocar um fone, fechar os olhos e acompanhar a terapeuta energética Ceci Akamatsu.

With tracks from Addvibe, Ackin' Feat. M. Akamatsu, Nicholas, Ferdinand Dreyssig & Marvin Hey, Mihai Popoviciu, Hyenah, Doctor Dru, Mike Dunn Pres. The MD X-Spress, Munk, Regen, Alexander Robotnick, Depeche Mode, Dauwd, Gui Boratto, Soulphiction, Tiga, Freaks & 012, Martin Buttrich, Spaventi Dazzurro, Hotlane, Leon Vynehall, Awanto 3 and Rhythm & Sound w/ Shalom. Contact: dj@ribeaud.ch.

Boston Comic Con announces new guests for 2014 John Rhys Davies at RICC Dead of Winter by Rob Smales is out: You can find it on Amazon and PDFs, Epubs and the like can be purchased through Ganxy Hell Really Did Freeze Over Disney Princess Lingerie Disney appoints a group to determine a new, official Star […]

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Spirit Catcher & Mr Renard "Never Give Up" Tad Wily Remix (Mullet) Alphabet City "Colder Boogie" Pete Herbert Version (Maxi Discs) Compuphonic & Marques Toliver "Sunset" Aashton & Swift Remix (Get Physical) Kruse & Nuernberg with Nathalie Claude "Leaves Falling" Mario Basanov Dub (Lazy Days) Spirit Catcher & Mr Renard "Final Call" (Mullet) Drop Out Orchestra "Day Vague" Ron Basejam Mix (File Under Disco) Moullinex "Hypnotize" Club Mix (Gomma) The Disco Machine "Make It Hot" Idjut Boys Hot Mix (File Under Disco) M Akamatsu "Tembezi" (Internasjonal) Betelhause "Alpha Orionis" Julian Sanza Remix (Heartbeat Revolutions) The Sunburst Band & Angela Johnson "In The Thick Of It" Opolopo Boogie Dub (Z) Refurbished "Yo Mama" (Caboose)

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This weekend is the anniversary of the resurrection of someone very important to us. Someone who has changed lives by the masses. Someone who has a myriad of books and movies dedicated to telling the story of his life. Someone who has followers willing to do anything and everything it takes to see his return. I'm talking about our friend Dracula. This week's Musicast is dedicated to Castlevania.  One of my all time favorite series by Konami. Happy Dracula day everyone. Castlevania: Lead Designer Akihiko Nagata. Music Composer Kinuyo Yamashita. Story BGM: Black Knight Vampire Killer Stalker Wicked Child Heart of Fire Voyager Castlevania II Simon's Quest: Lead Designer H. Akamatsu. Music Composer Kenichi Matsubara. Story BGM: Password Bloody Tears Silence of Daylight Monster Night Dwelling of Doom Dracula's Castle Game Over Castlevania III Dracula's Curse: Lead Designer H. Akamatsu. Music Composers Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, and Yukie Morimoto. Story BGM: Encounter Beginning Aquarius Clockwork Pressure Mad Forest Dead Beat Outro: Evergreen Please let us know what you think of the new series and don't forget to send us in your requests for game soundtracks for us to feature. We hope you enjoy this weeks Musicast. You can also subscribe to the podcast via iTunes

Manga review of Negima! volume 6 by Ken Akamatsu. Translated by Toshifumi Yoshida. Adapted by Trish Ledoux. Originally published in Japan by Kodansha. Published in US by Del Rey, $10.95, Rated OT Ages 16+. Volume 6 of Negima is full of surprises as Negi, accompanied by Setsuna, Asuna, and Konoka, finally gets to deliver the letter from the headmaster of Mahora Academy. His mission was to hand deliver it to the leader of the Kansai Magic Association, called "The Elder of the East". The Elder also happens to be the son-in-law of the headmaster, which in turn makes him Konoka's dad. Of course, Negi had an ulterior motive in coming to Kyoto, which was to see if he could find any info about his missing father. But there are some that do not want to see the Kanto and Kansai Magic Associations getting along. Just when Negi thinks he's reached a safe haven Chigusa Amagasaki and her minions attack the Kansai temple and kidnap Konoka. Well, somehow, Akamatsu found a way for Negi's students to fight on equal footing with Negi against high-level magicians and even brutish demons. In the context of Negima, this actually doesn't strain the limits of believability. I didn't even blink when some of his students started breaking out sniper rifles or using Naruto-like martial arts attacks. It just made sense in this world Akamatsu has created. The art is great as usual and the fan service is plentiful. Some might say TOO plentiful. For instance, in battle, Asuna blocks a petrification spell that does not harm her but turns her clothes to stone and then they shatter, leaving her naked. She is then tickled by multiple tentacled arms made of water which seem to be groping in all the wrong places. Later, when she gets another set of clothes, she forgets to put on her panties, and so every battle she fights her butt is blowing in the wind. Literally. And what would a volume of Negima be without some sort of bath scene? Still, I find the characters interesting and the humor works most of the time, even though the series tries to be an softcore ero-manga at times. My Grade: B+

Manga review of Negima! Volume 5 by Ken Akamatsu. Translated and adapted by Douglas Varenas. Originally published in Japan by Kodansha. Published in US by Del Rey, $10.95, Rated OT 16+. Now that Kazumi, the leader of the Journalism Club, has decided to keep Negi's secret, she's in kahoots with resident weasel pervert Chamo in an effort to increase Negi's probationary contracts. She instigates "Operation Kiss Negi-kun Passionately on This School Field Trip". She splits the girls into pairs and tells them that whoever kisses Negi without getting caught by the other faculy members gets them on the limited edition trading cards that are a prize among his class. Of course, MOST of them don't know that they will also be entering into a magic contract at the same time to help Negi in battle. Unfortunately for them, there is now more than one Negi. Negi made some paper doll copies of himself so he could go out on patrol without being missed. But some of the copies are defective and want to get it on with his students! Meanwhile, elements of the Kansai Magic Association that do not want peace begin to make their moves to stop Negi from fulfilling his mission to deliver a letter of conciliation from his magic school. Negima is nothing if not entertaining. Again, the art is great, with Akamatsu making sure that things never get too serious. Even when Negi battles with a powerful fox spirit and gets the snot beat out of him, it never gets to the Naruto stabbing and cutting off heads realm. Akamatsu is about showing pretty girls and panties and he never misses an opportunity to showcase them. He really is a master of character design even if his plots steal from other better known Japanese and Western franchises. I enjoy each volume of Negima, but see little reason to ever pick up the new Negima Neo series. One time around with this story and characters is quite enough for me. My Grade: B+

Podcast anime review of Love Hina: The Complete Series, Episodes 8-13. Directed by Yoshiaki Iwasaki (Hayate, Familiar of Zero). Series Composition by Kurou Hazuki. Published by Funimation, Rated 16+, List Price: $49.99. In this second batch of episodes, Keitaro's efforts to get into Tokyo U take a backseat to stories focusing on the female leads. Motoko, the samurai girl, finally has to confront her turtlephobia when Su lets a giant mecha-turtle loose. Then she has to enter Keitaro's dream, which is based on an old Japanese RPG, which pisses her off, even though she's in an unconscious state. Kitsune plays the role of Sherlock Holmes (she actually cosplays as him) to find out what has become of the missing monthly Hinata rent payments. Naru might just be leaving her friends and Tokyo U behind as she attempts to break into the cutthroat world of Japanese pop idols, managed by none other than the male diva, Kentaro. We also get a little more background info on the always mysterious Su, as the residents try to find out more about her older brother and sister. Whoops, I almost forgot Shinobu and her desire to experience her first kiss! I actually enjoyed this second disk more than the first because, let's face it, Keitaro is a bit of a wanker. The girls are much more interesting, seeing as how they don't have a single goal in life that obsesses them to extremes. Actually, maybe they all do. Motoko with her sword training, Su with her absent family members and gadgets, Kitsune with her drinking, and Naru, whose quest mirrors Keitaro's. I guess I meant that the girls seem to have more texture, and the writers of the show are making them even more individual in these episodes. Even though Love Hina was one of the first harem anime, it still works better than most because there are only five girls, unlike Negima where you have over 30. So it's much easier to get to know them and add layers to their personalities. The animation is top of the line, supplied by Production IG, which wisely modified their super realistic style to suit the design of the original manga. The voice acting is done very well also. My Grade: A Listen to podcast of Episodes 1-7: http://sesho.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=522459  

Podcast anime review of Love Hina: The Complete Series, Episodes 1-7. Directed by Yoshiaki Iwasaki (Hayate, Familiar of Zero). Series Composition by Kurou Hazuki. Published by Funimation, Rated 16+, List Price: $49.99. From the back cover: Attempting to fulfill a promise to his childhood sweetheart, Keitaro Urashima is determined to enter Tokyo University. After being rejected twice, he decides to leave home and stay at his grandmother's apartment complex to study. But when he arrives, his grandmother is gone and he finds himself under attack by the all-female residents. Will the girls accept him as their new apartment manager? Will his bones ever mend? More importantly, can he concentrate on his studies when he discovers that one of his tenants might be his long-lost sweetheart? My Grade: A- View the trailer below:

Manga Review of Negima volume 2 by Ken Akamatsu, creator of Love Hina and A.I. Love You. Translated by Douglas Varenas. Adapted by Peter David and Kathleen O'Shea David. Originally published in Japan by Kodansha. Published in US by Del Rey, $10.95, Rated OT ages 16+. Negi sees a lot of students really putting pressure on themselves studying and wonders why his own Class 2A seems to be going about their usual business. When he asks one of the girls what the deal is, she tells him that in 3 days the school will be taking the all-important high school exam. 2A always has the worst average so none of the girls even bother getting upset about it, especially the Baka Rangers. They get a bit more serious when they hear rumors that Negi might be fired or their class might be dissolved if they don't improve their class ranking. The truth is that if Negi can somehow get his class out of last place, he will "officially" become a teacher at the Academy (up to this point he's been in a probationary type position). He starts to come up with some sort of magical solution, but Asuna talks him out of it, saying that the girls should fail or succeed on their own merits. Negi even goes to drastic lengths by taking away his own powers in the 3 days leading up to the test so he won't be tempted to use his magic. Asuna quickly changes her tune when she hears the rumors going round the school and enlists the Baka Rangers to help acquire a mythical book in the school library that supposedly makes you smarter if you read it. The Mahora Library is the largest library in the world and contains millions of books, with a lot of them being rare and irreplacable. Due to the nature of the tomes inside it, there are lots of traps on its first floor to keep out would-be robbers. Traps which Negi and company are going to have to deal with minus his magic. The two things that instantly grab you just flipping through this manga is its beautiful art and sexy fanservice. Akamatsu is pretty much at the top of his form doing harem comedy. But the fact that Negi is so young eleminates some of the horndog nature that you find in some male protagonists of this genre. Instead of being a perverted male surrounded by pure and innocent girls, Negi is the pure and innocent one being played on by females that find him cute and irresistible, especially Ayaka, the class rep. Of course this wouldn't be Akamatsu if the writer didn't find a ton of ways to get the girls bathing naked, have their clothes blown off, or bend over for various reasons for panty shots. It's just the nature of Akamatsu's game. While he focuses a lot on comedy, he is not afraid to draw epic background environments pulled right out of Kurosawa's vast shot forte. This is something a lot of manga artists lack nowadays, the use of wide shots. The character designs are great. I never have trouble recognizing any of the 31 girls of class 2A. They are distinct enough, at least in outward form, so you don't confuse them very easily. We haven't really got to know them all as personalities but then again, this is only the second volume. I look forward to learning more about the characters. Negima is really funny and is a very entertaining adventure. My Grade: A